A S Kashyap As per a new study, good leaders needing to strike a balance between striving to reach goals and keeping their followers with them has deep evolutionary roots.
Researchers from universities of Bristol, Harvard and Princeton on schooling fish devised an experiment to determine the behaviours associated with effective leadership using fish called golden shiners (Notemigonus crysoleucas).
Pregnant with her first child, Naya Rivera recently opened up about her changed sex life and explains why she doesn’t wish to have sex in her second trimester.
The 28-year-old actress said that sex with her husband Ryan Dorsey had became a bit odd for her as she’s limited to only two positions in order to not squash, reported News.com.au.
As her husband puts it, it’s the roof or her belly staring him in the face.
Leicester City have sacked three players who were reportedly filmed in a racist orgy during their Thailand tour.
In the film, Tom Hopper, Adam Smith and James Pearson were seen verbally abusing three Thai girls while they committed sexual acts with them in a Bangkok hotel room, the Mirror reported.
The contracts of the players have been terminated by the club after the players were sent home from the Premier League club’s goodwill tour of Thailand at the end of May.
Sony Pictures has recently roped in Hollywood’s hottest reigning stars together for an interstellar romance that is set in outer space but is Jennifer Lawrence bagging more green notes than Chris Pratt for this flick?
Sources reveal that after the massive hit of the 35-year-old actor’s ‘Jurassic Park,’ his fees has jumped from 10 million dollars to 12 million dollars while the 24-year-old actress is getting an exceptional 20 million dollars against 30 percent of the profit after the movie breaks even, reported The Hollywood Reporter.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has decided to make its biggest investment in women’s cricket by pumping three million pounds to launch a six-team super league tournament.
The tournament, which is scheduled to start next summer, will initially employ the T20 format and would go on for two weeks, the BBC reports.
However, the venues and dates have still not been decided.
Delighted with the announcement, ECB chief executive Tom Harrison said that it was a major step forward for the women’s game in England.
Indian batsman Suresh Raina has admitted that his side will be wary of the spirited Bangladesh side in the three-match ODI series beginning in Dhaka on Thursday.
Bangladesh produced a sparkling performance during the World Cup, with knocking England out of the tournament to advance to their first-ever quarter-finals before claiming a 3-0 whitewash over Pakistan at home a month later.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) can confirm all 14 competing squads as preparations have been intensified ahead of the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier 2015, which is scheduled to be staged in Ireland and Scotland from 9 to 26 July.
The top six sides from the 18-day tournament, during which 51 matches will be played, will join the 10 Full Members for the ICC World Twenty20 India 2016, which will be held from 11 March to 3 April 2016.
Bollywood actor Varun Dhawan recently marked his presence at the promotion of his forthcoming flick ‘ABCD 2’ along with his co-star Shraddha Kapoor in New Delhi.
While talking about the flick, the 28-year-old actor said that ‘ABCD 2’ is a complete family film, which will inspire the people not only to pursue dance but to pursue any form of art.
The ‘Badlapur’ famed star added that his character Suresh goes through many hardships to reach at the pinnacle of his career.
“It was almost from rags to riches and is much better human being than him,” he said.
Taylor Swift seems to have no grudge against her former lover Joe Jonas and his now rumored girlfriend Gigi Hadid, as she was spotted with them at Jaime King’s baby shower.
The 25-year-old Grammy award winner was with her boyfriend Calvin Harris when she joined her supermodel gal-pal in the garage at Soho House in Hollywood for the celebration and headed together with former singer boyfriend for the Plan Check Kitchen and Bar, People Magazine has reported.
The event was also attended by HAIM, Jessica Alba and Selma Blair.
Swift and Jonas dated for four months in 2008. (ANI)
Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney has heaped praise on Tottenham Hotspur sensation Harry Kane, expressing that it would be exciting to have the striker in his team.
Kane, who scored 31 goals last season, has been billed as one of United’s key summer transfer targets, with the team willing to make a 40million dollar bid for the England international.
Describing Kane as fantastic, Rooney said that the striker burst onto the scene this season, adding that it would be exciting to have him in his team, the Mirror reported.
Improving air quality could prevent up to 1.4 million premature deaths per year in polluted countries such as China and India, a new study has found.
The study also warned that with no changes in air pollution, deaths per capita from air pollution would increase 20 to 30% during the next 15 years in India and China. The researchers found that meeting the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) particulate air quality guidelines could prevent 2.1 million deaths per year related to outdoor air pollution worldwide.
West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra on Wednesday said the state has asked NITI Aayog to retain the money sanctioned under central schemes for implementation of various projects at previous years’ level.
Replying to the debate for the passage of the West Bengal Appropriation (No. 2) Bill, 2015, Mitra informed the Assembly that the state had already written to the NITI Aayog in this regard, adding that several other states had also done so.
The NITI Aayog has already set up a committee to look into the demands of the state governments, he added.
Government on Wednesday launched its ‘Housing for All by 2022’ mission and approved a substantial increase in interest relief on loan for the urban poor to promote affordable homes.
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi accepted the recommendations of an Inter-Ministerial Committee to increase interest subvention to 6.50% on housing loans to beneficiaries belonging to economic weaker section (EWS) including slum- dwellers and low income groups (LIGs).
When it comes to cyber security, 45% organisations admit to their inability to measure, assess and mitigate risk, describing their capabilities in this area as “non-existent”, a survey on Wednesday said.
According to a survey by RSA, the security division of EMC, size of a company is not a determinant of strong cyber security maturity and nearly 75% of all respondents lack the maturity to address cyber security risks.
The government on Wednesday saw as “just a compassionate intervention” Union Minister Sushma Swaraj’s help to tainted former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi in securing British travel documents and preferred to wait for “details” with regard to the controversy over Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje allegedly backing his immigration plea.
“As far as impropriety allegation is conerned, I don’t buy that logic. It was just a case of compassionate intervention for a humanitarian cause. That’s all,” Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters at the Cabinet briefing.
After he tweeted that the Indian government should release the letters sent to the UK chancellor regarding Lalit Modi’s case, P Chidambaram spoke to the media on the issue.
Chidambaram came down heavily on Modi, saying that he was being investigated under the Indian laws and had no right to travel or stay in UK.
Snapping its 4-day losing streak, the rupee on Wednesday closed 14 paise higher at 64.12 against the US dollar on fresh selling of the greenback by exporters amid weakness of the American currency in overseas markets.
Besides, persistent rise in the equity market boosted the rupee value against the dollar.
The rupee resumed higher at 64.18 as against yesterday’s closing level of 64.26 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) and firmed up further to 64.09 before ending at 64.12, a gain of 14 paise or 0.22%.
It had dropped by 42 paise, or 0.66%, in previous four trading sessions.
Tata Steel workers in the UK have temporarily suspended their industrial action as emergency talks offered new hope of an agreement over an ongoing pensions row.
Members of four trade unions –- Unite, Community, GMB and Ucatt –- had started an overtime ban and work-to-rule slowdown on Tuesday ahead of 24-hour strike on June 22 to protest changes to their pension scheme.
But they confirmed it has been suspended as negotiators secured a new offer which could see the scheme remain open.
Keen to cash in on the online shopping boom, the Adidas Group will soon roll out Omni-channel model, a new mode of technology, at its retail outlets in Punjab.
The company aims to fully integrate 200 outlets using this technology across India by March 2016.
After launching it in Delhi and NCR, the sporting goods player plans to take this model to Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Amritsar over the next two months.
Shares of Reliance Industries climbed 3% on Wednesday, its fourth straight session of gains, on continued optimism over the company’s plans to start 4G phone services later this year.
RIL’s scrip ended with a gain of 3% at Rs 931.10 on BSE. During the day, it jumped 4% to Rs 940.40.
At the NSE, the stock settled at Rs 931.20, a gain of 3% from its previous closing price.
In four days, the stock has gained over 6%.
On the volume front, 8.70 lakh shares of the company changed hands and over 59 lakh shares were traded at the NSE during the day.
Micro-lender Bandhan Financial Services on Wednesday said it has received final nod from the Reserve Bank to set up a universal bank and will commence operations from August 23.
The entity will be named as Bandhan Bank.
“We will launch the bank in Kolkata, where Bandhan is headquartered, on August 23,” its Chairman and Managing Director Chandra Shekhar Ghosh told reporters here on Wednesday.
Bandhan had received the RBI’s in-principle banking licence in April last year, along with infrastructure finance company IDFC.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday accused the Narendra Modi government of helping “known offender” Lalit Modi and claimed that their support for him amounted to impropriety.
“The whole Modi government and the party (BJP) are extending support, help and all facilities to known offender and tax evader Lalit Modi,” Gogoi alleged while talking to reporters here.
“The Foreign Minister of the country is helping a person who has a red alert issued against him… Vasundhara Raje is helping him.
Just a couple of days after India’s Test captain Virat Kohli gave positive signals about the use of Decision Review System (DRS), the BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya today clarified that board’s “stand remains same” but the Cricket Advisory Committee might take a call in future.
However, there was a slight contrast from his predecessor N Srinivasan’s stand as Dalmiya stated that the BCCI is “open to discussions” and might use a modified version during a future bilateral series.
Pakistan’s ISI had held Osama Bin Laden prisoner for nearly six years in Abbottabad and handed him over to the US in a staged raid, a media report said today in new controversial account of the al-Qaeda chief’s death.
Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has already termed the official US account of the raid and Osama’s killing as “a fairytale”. The BBC report by Jane Corbin, who has investigated al- Qaeda and Osama for nearly two decades, claims there was a conspiracy at the highest levels of the US and Pakistani government to assassinate him.
The saying “you are what you eat” also holds true for the skin.
Eating a healthy balanced diet with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables thrown in as snacks does your skin a whole deal of good, while a diet high in foods with a high glycemic index damage the skin, can cause premature ageing and have also been implicated in worsening acne or zits.